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minus-squareWhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up38arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoIf neoliberalism didn’t completely decouple wages from productivity 50 years ago, workers would already be making the same wages for a ~3 day work week. So yes, they can absolute go fuck themselves. The only way a realignment will occur is if workers organize, unionize, and demand it at a national level.
minus-squareNathanielThomas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoI was born. A great year indeed, for both Canada and therefore the world.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoAh, so that’s where all the surplus money from workers’ productivity has been going
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoOh thanks, nice to see I’m not the only one who’s had that thought Edit: damn 1971 seems like the year that changed the world
minus-squarethesohoriots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThe real question is what kept happening after about 1980 and the answer is John Hinckley Jr. missed.
If neoliberalism didn’t completely decouple wages from productivity 50 years ago, workers would already be making the same wages for a ~3 day work week.
So yes, they can absolute go fuck themselves. The only way a realignment will occur is if workers organize, unionize, and demand it at a national level.
What happened in 1974?
I was born. A great year indeed, for both Canada and therefore the world.
Ah, so that’s where all the surplus money from workers’ productivity has been going
Same time and place here too!
WTF happened in 1971?
FTFY
Oh thanks, nice to see I’m not the only one who’s had that thought
Edit: damn 1971 seems like the year that changed the world
The real question is what kept happening after about 1980 and the answer is John Hinckley Jr. missed.